The wind of AyahuascaThe wind of Ayahuasca

In Iquitos, the gateway to the Peruvian Amazon, Nexy lives on the margins, sometimes as a sex worker, haunted by the memories and folklore of her rural childhood. She meets Miguel, a sociologist visiting from Lima, studying the region's spiritual traditions and socioeconomic disparities. Nexy consults a curandero, who suggests she participate in a healing ceremony. Together, they travel into the jungle, to deepen the healing in a natural environment. When Nexy vanishes, Miguel and Melitón seek guidance from ayahuasca and experience profound revelations while embracing the medicine. Restored in 2018 in cooperation with the Per{250} Ministry of Culture, The Wind of Ayahuasca (El viento del ayahuasca, 1983) was the first film to offer an authentic and honest depiction of an ayahuasca healing ceremony (performed by Delgado, an actual ayahuasquero who served as technical advisor on the film, with his mother Alicia Vda. de Delgado).